Analysis of Rejected
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
WE wandered down the meadow way--
The path beside the hedge is shady,--
You did not see the silver may,
You talked of Art, my sweet blind Lady.
You talked of values and of tone,
Of square touch and New English crazes;
Could you not see we were alone,
Where God's hand paints the world with daisies?
You spoke of Paris and of Rome
And in the hedgerow's thorny shadows
A white-throat sang a song of home,
Of English lanes and English meadows.
You talked about the aims of Art
And how all Art must needs be moral;
I heard you with a sinking heart
And watched the waving crimson sorrel.
For when I found you had not heard
The song--nor seen the dewy clover,
I cared no more to find the word
Should make you hear and see a lover!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDED FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 010101110 11110101 111111110 11110011 11101101 11111001 111101110 11110011 0001101 01110111 11010101 11010111 011111110 11110101 010101010 11111111 011101010 11111101 111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 732 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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